The Wenlock (seldomly also referred to as Wenlockian) is the second series of the Silurian. It is preceded by the Llandovery series and followed by the Ludlow. Radiometric dates constrain the Wenlockian between 433.4 ± 0.8 and 427.4 ± 0.5 million years ago.
The Wenlock is named after Wenlock Edge, an outcrop of rocks near the town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire (West Midlands, United Kingdom). The name was first used in the term "Wenlock and Dudley rocks" by Roderick Murchison in 1834 to refer to the limestones and underlying shales that underlay what he termed the "Ludlow rocks". He later modified this term to simply the "Wenlock rocks" in his the Silurian System in 1839.
The Wenlock's beginning is defined by the lower boundary (or GSSP) of the Sheinwoodian. The end is defined as the base (or GSSP) of the Gorstian.
The Wenlock is divided into the older Sheinwoodian and the younger Homerian stage. The Sheinwoodian lasted from 433.4 ± 0.8 to 430.5 ± 0.7 million years ago. The Homerian lasted from 430.5 ± 0.7 to 427.4 ± 0.5 million years ago.
First base, it's me living an empty life so wrong
Heading to nowhere, drinking all night long
Then somebody told me, "Man, you better stop
You're going down, you need something to believe"
On the second, I was building, castles in the air
Dreamed of a kingdom, I was never going to share
But it felt so empty, something should've come my way
Now I know and it's clear inside of me
Here I stand again, I'm a gambler, I'm a man
It's my homerun, my homerun to you
Every life's a game and there's no one you can blame
This is my homerun, my homerun to you
Third base saw me taking all her pictures from the wall
When love surrendered, I fell as deep as I could fall
And the fourth back to my music, to free this troubled mind
I found something after times of being blind
Here I stand again, I'm a gambler, I'm a man
It's my homerun, my homerun to you
Every life's a game and there's no one you can blame
This is my homerun, my homerun to you
I was searching, bleeding, I cried some tears of pain
I was yearning, screaming it all brought me back to you
Here I stand again, I'm a gambler, I'm a man
It's my homerun, my homerun to you
Every life's a game and there's no one you can blame
This is my homerun, my homerun to you
Here I stand again, I'm a gambler, I'm a man
It's my homerun, my homerun to you
Every life's a game and there's no one you can blame